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Rob Tashima

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Senior Director, @drkfoundation. Board, @SocialTechTrust and @CAAB_GreaterDC. Recovering Fan, @NUFC.
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Articles by Rob Tashima

Venture Capital is Like Skinny Jeans (Or Why We Need a New Language for Capital)

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By Rob Tashima
| Medium
Join our ongoing conversation to create a new common language for capital By Rob Tashima (Village Capital), with Astrid Scholz (Zebras Unite) My genes make it tough to find jeans. I’ve got short legs, and finding a pair of trousers to fit them can be a challenge. They are either too short, too long, too tight or too baggy, so when I find a pair that actually fits, I end up buying several of them to stock up. This means I’m not a big fan of current fads: I do not look good in skinny jeans.
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Want to integrate business value and social value? Look to entrepreneurs

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By Allie Burns, Rob Tashima
| Medium
In January, Larry Fink, the chair and CEO of multi-trillion-dollar asset manager BlackRock, issued an ultimatum to corporate executives: if they want to receive investment from BlackRock, their businesses must have a social purpose. Fink argued that a company’s decisions should benefit all the company’s stakeholders, including their employees, their customers and the communities in which they operate.
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